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Nature means Necessity.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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P. J. Bailey
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Man is one and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs thus are we men.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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